Re: Virtual to physical address Translation

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You may use the following macros declared in include/asm-i386/page.h 

Virtual to physical
#define __pa(x)                 ((unsigned long)(x)-PAGE_OFFSET)

Physical to virtual
#define __va(x)                 ((void*)((unsignedlong)(x)+PAGE_OFFSET))

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 08:50, sri wrote:
> Hi guys..
>                     I am a newbie to kernel ..
>  I am using a hardware debugger to debug the kernel start-up code for
> 2.4.18 kernel for which i have been setting a break point at the
> 0xffff0200 address location which i believe is the vector base
> address+0x24 (__trap_init+0x24 address location ). 
>                     Now i have moved to 2.4.20 kernel for which the
> above break point is not working.. I could get the virtual address of
> this location from System.map file but not clear how to get the
> physical address..
>                             Can any one show me a way.. Thanks in
> advance !
> Regards,
> Srikanth
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